WLS-TV - Eyewitness News at 5pm - "Art Heist / Bears / Gacy" (Preview & First 8 Minutes, 12/27/1978)
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- Here's a preview for, and first eight minutes of, an edition of Eyewitness News at 5:00pm on WLS Channel 7, anchored by Jay Levine (filling in for John Drury) and Terry Murphy.
Includes:
Preview of stories:
- Art heist at Chicago Art Institute
- Holiday binge at Stateville Prison
- More dead bodies found in Northwest suburban contractor's home (guess who?)
- Stopgap solution for Soldier Field
- Bill Frink at UIC (Circle Campus) for Mayor Bilandic's Holiday Basketball Tournament
Commercials for:
Jim Whalen Ford-Elgin (with "Brian")
National Home Health Plan (with Art Linkletter) - "This hurts more than my leg..." - $40 a day for as long as you stay, in the hospital
Alberto VO5 (with Rula Lenska) (different commercial from this one posted separately: • Alberto VO5 Hair Spray... )
Station ID / promo for United Cerebral Palsy telethon for December 30th-31st (voiceover by Al Parker)
Show open (voiceover by Al Parker, who also mentions Dr. Frank Sechrist with weather), followed by lead items:
- 3 Paul Cezanne paintings - valued at total $3 million - reported stolen from Art Institute of Chicago (were they ever recovered?)
- Hugh Hill report on temporary solution for Chicago Bears' home, Soldier Field; clips of news conference with comments from Mayor Bilandic and stadium committee chairman Richard Ogilvie (who, when Cook County sheriff in 1966, was name-checked in Simon & Garfunkel's "7 O'Clock News / Silent Night" track from their album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme"), plus conflicting opinions from two Chicagoans
- Speaking of Bilandic, he wins top spot on Democratic ballot in upcoming February 17th Mayoral primary (this, before the devastating blizzard of January 1979 derailed everything) in a lottery at Chicago City Hall office of clerk John Marcin
- 6 more bodies found in basement crawl space of home of John Wayne Gacy at 8213 West Summerdale in Norwood Park Township, bringing total up to this point to 15; Chief Edmund Dobbs of the Cook County Sheriff Police speaks about situation; meanwhile, Harold Thomas, Commander of the Chicago Police Department Youth Division defends the past handling of these missing persons cases in interview with Vivian Rosenberg
- Jay is just beginning report on 1,000 inmates at Stateville Prison when recording ends, sadly
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, December 27th 1978 during the 4:58pm to 5:08pm timeframe.
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My dad worked with a lot of construction companies. He met Gacy several times in passing. He said Gacy seemed perfectly normal, nice, not weird at all. My high school friend dated someone who lived near Gacy. Two of his brothers (both in their teens) were supposed to work for him at different times, but it never worked out. They said he seemed perfectly normal and were totally freaked out when this all came out. They dodged a serious bullet.
Chilling. Dodged a bullet is an understatement!
He probably had split personality when he put his clown suit on.
My mom’s two sisters had Gacy connections. Her oldest sister Marilyn (born 1951) was on a bowling league with her friends and the company that sponsored their league and paid for their bowling shirts in the 70s was PDM construction which was Gacy’s company she never met Gacy but it’s a creepy thought years later to know that. My other aunt Judy (born 1958) her future husband and father of her children to whom she’s still married met Gacy while handing out fliers in his neighborhood and he was this super popular guy who always had block parties. So he handed Gacy a flier and shook his hand and thought nothing of it and then years later news broke and he was in shock.
Gacy footage starts at 6:46
I love the old new casts, living in the Chicago area my whole life, these news casters were present every night when my father watched the news. I love that the old commercials are included.
Remember John Coleman calling Bill Frinke "Frinky" Hahaha 🤣😂
I was a young girl when this was happening with JWG. I remember the shock, fear and horror that echoed through the city and how the targeted youngsters were about the age of my older sister and her friends. We were all very freaked out and chilled to the core. This was my first inkling of what a serial killer is, and back then, it made a shift in my consciousness. Probably for a lot of kids back then. I still get the shivers reflecting on those old days the police kept reporting more and more victims being pulled from that horrible house.
Cannot believe! The headline was art theft and the bears! Over Gacy! Also Cannot believe that they built a house on it! How in the world...can anyone live there!
😐
I had just turned 5 years old. Thinking back, the absolute only thing I can remember about this time was watching The Star Wars Holiday Special (a month earlier). For many years to come, my friends and I thought we all dreamed it. That is, until the internet, proved us all right. Han Solo DID visit Chewie's planet!
And the CBS announcer on duty that fateful night? Bill Martin.
I am the same age as you. The Star Wars Holiday Special was no dream, and I was as confused as you lol
haha!! Same here!! What a weird show huh?
That wasn't a dream, it was a nightmare.😆
Jay Levine was one wild and crazy guy.
Been waiting a very long time for this bit of newscast to be posted.
I forgot about that - why?
When I was a kid I thought it would be neat to run old newscasts like this, like a time capsule.
Love the commercials
The United Cerebral Palsy telethon used to take place New Year's weekend? I thought it was always in the month of January for years!
They might have moved it because in those days there werent a lot of college bowl games.
I was flat on my back at my grandmother’s house with the flu on this day 😅We couldn’t even travel back to Chicago I was so sick. I couldn’t even play with the toys I had just gotten at Christmas. Funny the things one remembers.
The only time I remember Rula Lenska in an acting role was on a CBS Late Movie airing of an episode of "The Return of the Saint," which was produced in England.
She was in the Space:1999 episode "Alpha Child."
Yes, most of Rula's acting career is in the UK. Beyond the commercials and getting votes for President in 1980, her biggest moment in America was probably being impersonated on SNL at its peak of popularity.
While it was filmed in the UK, some episodes of her sitcom “Take a Letter Mr. Jones” did end up broadcast on PBS stations. That was because of her costar, John Inman - and stations could pair it up with his more successful show, “Are You Being Served?”.
@@kengeorgejones6855 - One of her most famous works in the UK was the series "Rock Follies" with Julie Covington and Charlotte Cornwell.
Now that Casual Criminalist did a 3hr podcast video on this it's so strange to see this original footage.
Pretty Kool dude.. It's like watching TV in the 80's.
They were even talking about Gacy then(1978). Gacy was in the headlines again in 1994(the year I moved from Chicago to Dallas) I wasn’t alive in 1978, not born for 4 more years(1982)
Soldier Field lasted more then the 20 years. It's so sad to see Da Bears move but it is a new millennium..... Let's pray Soldier Field does not turn into ruins.....
The movie aired before this edition ("Jason And The Argonauts") was run two days before (December 25th) on WABC Channel 7 in New York on "The 4:30 Movie." I think by then Scott Vincent was sidelined by the illness that would claim his life the next spring, and Gilbert Hodges filled in as announcer. But the question is, who in the Roger Grimsby/Bill Beutel anchor duo was off Christmas Day 1978, and who filled in?
I was eight years old and just becoming aware of the world around me, growing up in Elmhurst. I remember most of these events.
They were talking about the Bears moving out of Soldier Field even back then??? 🥺🥺🥺
Ya its been an ongoing thing forever.
And now we are again.. They do say history repeats itself!
That's pretty strange considering they hadn't even been playing in Soldier's Field a decade yet in 1978. They were at Wrigley Field until 1970.
Day I was born. In the Chicagoland area.
Bill Frink was on Channel 9 also.
Man. He really put some emphasis on the word homosexuals.
Lol it took decades to get a new stadium
We still don't have the indoor temperature controlled one they mention.
$40 a day?!
Minimum wage was $2.70 back then, thats a lot.
40 dollars a day for as long as you stay!! I have to say, in todays dollars, 40 bucks was a LOT back then, so getting that money was helpful 😅
Gary had police surveillance put on him in 76 and the police notice anything why wasn't his placed searched in 76
Terri was our Veronica Corningstone
5:50 - 45 years later, it still hasn't happened.
Cool
Meanwhile Dahmer was making his first victim lol
God was all news this awkward in the 70s
most unprofessional news ever hahahah they all just look around for a few seconds after each story hahahahahah
They had some serious technical struggles on this newscast. Blown live shot in the tease, blown live shot on the first story, a highly opinionated piece on Soldier Field preceding the Gacy story (makes me think maybe the Gacy story wasn’t ready in time and they had to shuffle things around), and the soundtrack of the last story is messed up. Not their best work.
Did this newsman blame the victims by characterizing them as homosexual prostitutes??!! WTF??!! Who wrote that shit that he was reading??!!
The Chicago cops covered up their own involvement in these murders and their involvement in a nationwide child pornography/trafficking ring.
5:50 - 45 years later, it still hasn't happened.